If you've ever felt the need to test your mettle by stuffing your face full of chicken wings, you're in luck.

Eat the Bird in Taunton will be hosting its inaugural wing eating competition on October 22 at 7pm, with competitors testing their tongue against jumbo chicken wings doused with six different kinds of chili sauce.

While that on its own sounds challenging enough, two of those sauces contain the California Reaper chili - said to be the world's hottest.

Can you take on the chicken wing challenge?

It has a rating of 2.2 million Scoville heat units (SHU) which compares to the Ghost Pepper's rating of 1.04 million SHU. In order to give you a feeling for magnitude, by way of comparison, a jalapeno pepper has a SHU rating of 2,500-10,000.

It's £10 to enter the competition and there's a pint and a t-shirt for anyone brave - or daft - enough to try the challenge, as well as some prizes on offer.